Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Job Title: Bioinformatics Software Engineer

Location: South San Francisco, CA

Duration: 11+ Months
Position Type: Contract

Duties:

• We have a full-time temporary contractor opening (11 months) for an experienced software engineer in the Ion AmpliSeq Designer team.

• The individual will focus on developing a brand new API web-service to enable third-party integrations with the AmpliSeq Designer software.

• The individual will design and implement the core service and related authentication aspects, notifications, versioning, as well as work on deployment & scaling in a cloud-hosted environment.

• The successful candidate will be part of an innovative multi-disciplinary team developing applications for Ion Torrent DNA sequencing.

• As part of this team, they will be expected to work in a fast paced, complex setting to hard deliverables in a collaborative environment.

• Critical thinking, determination to succeed, the willingness and courage to push the boundaries on the possible and the drive to deliver are key attributes.

Primary responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, and test API web-services to enable third party integrations of AmpliSeq Designer functionality.

• Integrate such API with existing backend data analysis pipelines and databases.

• Document and maintain API specifications, coordinate with clients of the API.

• Handle authentication, status notifications, versioning and related aspects.

• Develop automation tools and scripts to aid testing of the API using real and mock data.

• Collaborate with a team of software developers and bioinformatics scientists to deliver software features in release cycles (in an agile development process).

Requirements:

• Experience with multiple complete product development life cycles from concept to development and product testing and final release.

• Excellent communication and organization skills.

• Proven expertise with Java and web-service frameworks like Play, DropWizard, etc.

• Experience with designing APIs, building REST-ful webservices, working with SQL databases.

• Proven expertise with Perl, Python, or UNIX scripting.

• Bioinformatics background knowledge (genomics, molecular biology) and skills (NGS, assay design, tools, file-formats etc.) are a strong plus.

• Prefer experience with cloud computing, AWS, docker, scaling.

Vishnu Kumar

Technical Recruiter 

Artech Information Systems LLC 

360 Mt. Kemble Avenue, Suite 2000 | Morristown, NJ 07960 

Office: +1.973.967.3585 | Fax: 973.998.2599